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Peter Carrico is my 5th great-grandfather – my mother, his 4th great-granddaughter in direct line – Catherine Lyons Carrico. I have read that the name Carrico could be French or Italian. According to my extremely talkative, full of life, Catholic family I would vote Italy!

Be that as it may, Peter Carrico came to Maryland in the early years of his life, marrying Ann Gates about 1720 in Charles County. When Ann died about 1735, Peter married Margaret Gates – probably a cousin to Ann. Peter died at Bryantown Hundred, Charles County, Maryland, October 18, 1765.

Carrico’s Hope was a piece of property he bought later in life. Don’t you love that most properties in Maryland were named? I’ve never noticed that in any other state! The descriptive paragraph at the bottom gives us a good idea of what was on the property – another bonus! This property was recorded February 7, 1763.

Members of the Carrico family came to Washington County, Kentucky, about 1795 when the Catholic migration began from Maryland to Kentucky. A conference was recently held at St. Catharine College in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, reuniting all descendents of these pioneer families. Ritchey and I were proud to attend!

Charles County

Laid out for Peter Carrico of Charles County, aforesaid, a piece of land lying in the county aforesaid within the presence of his Lordship, Mayor of Calverton, and next adjoining to tracts of land called Maidstone, which is called Carrico’s Hope, and bounded as follows. Beginning at a bounded locust post standing where a bounded red oak of the said Maidstone formerly stood, running thence south fifty seven degrees, West eighty eight, from then north west and by west forty two, then north sixteen degrees, east twenty two, then north twenty seven degrees, west forty four, then north sixty seven degrees, west sixty eight, then north twenty degrees, east seventy four then south seventy degrees, east sixty one, then south forty eight degrees, east one hundred and forty five, thence with a strait line to the first beginning, containing ninety four acres, as by the plat here unto annex may appear. Surveyed and laid down by a scale of (?) in an inch this 30th June 1762, by a Mr. Hanson

About twenty acres of the above land are cultivated and has on it a clapboard dwelling house 16 feet square, a 20 feet square tobacco house, 22 old apple trees and about 400 panels of old fence.

Peter Carrico died 248 years ago – October 18, 1765 – at Bryantown Hundred in Charles County, Maryland. Peter was born about 1700 in Normandy, France, son of Peter Carrico. He married Ann Gates around 1720. Peter and Ann had at least one son, Peter Carrico. After Ann’s death he married Margaret Gates, probably a cousin of his first wife. Peter and Margaret had 6 children: John, Thomas Ignatius, James T., Bartholomew, Basil and Abel Carrico.

Peter Carrico is my 5th great-grandfather, supposedly born in Normandy, France, came to Maryland, married first Ann Gates, secondly Margaret Gates, a cousin of his first wife. They lived in Bryantown Hundred, Charles County. Maidstone was the name given to his 312 acres land.

Thanks for John Sullivan for his information that the Maryland State Archives are online and available for anyone willing to search! Check out their website!

Maryland, March 4, 1734

By virtue of a special warrant out of his Lordship’s Land office bearing date the tenth day of September last, granted unto Peter Carrico of Charles County to survey a tract or parcel of land lying in Charles County aforesaid, originally on the seventeenth day of June 1675 granted unto a certain John Hunt for the quantity of one hundred acres and resurveyed again on the ninth of November 1721 for a certain Ann Gates for the quantity of two hundred and fifteen acres with liberties to include its surplusage and add what vacant land might be found contiguous thereto. These are therefore to certify that I have resurveyed and laid out for and the name of him, the said Peter Carrico, the aforesaid tract of land according to its ancient note and bounds, including eighty nine acres of surplusage bounded as follows. Beginning at a bounded white oak sapling standing at the edge of an old field at the place where the original first boundaries of the said tract stood, running thence north . . . to the first beginning, containing one hundred and eighty-nine acres and have added thereto one hundred and twenty-three acres of vacancy and reduced all into one entire tract called Maidstone, bounded as follows . . . tract of land called Canterbury . . . thence with a straight line to the first beginning, containing and now resurveyed and laid out for three hundred and twelve acres to be hold of Calvert Manor. William Hanson, Dep. Just.

John Cotton Taylor

Linton Cemetery

John Walsh Gravestone

Vivian Brown

Carrico Montgomery Wedding

Rue and Alice

George Willett

Public Cemetery at Gethsemani Abbey

St. Rose Catholic Church and Cemetery

Washington County, Kentucky

Alexander Hamilton and His Four Wives

St. Rose Catholic Church

Phyllis Brown

I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree!